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While practical and maybe inevitable, this approach will alienate exactly the kind of people you want on your side if you want to _actually_ reach your goal and
by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
While practical and maybe inevitable, this approach will alienate exactly the kind of people you want on your side if you want to _actually_ reach your goal and course correct when needed.
Instead you will attract people who will happily pretend to be on the right path and will keep performing rain dances on titanic.
What you propose can work if it is a technocratic conspiracy where people who know what's going on maintain power and can update direction relatively easily (we were always at war with Eurasia). Then again, there is always a risk of losing real power to one of the mid-rank rain-dancing activists and screw up the whole project, maybe for good.
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- marcosdumay 5y agoTechnocratic conspiracies always fall very quickly to the mid-rank rain-dancing people unless the rain dancing is really complex and has really visible effects. It's not even something to see as a risk, it's certainty.
- jvanderbot 5y agoIt's not all or nothing. Good policy accomplishes the goal and attracts masses. For whatever quality metric you assign to a voter, you can't get the majority without including some of those below the median. In large populations, for example, 'knowledgeable' implies you need to convince people who know less than average as well as the most knowledgeable. And the average is real, real low on specific knowledge about complicated issues.
- mst 5y agoThe alienation issue is real ... but it's simply another thing that has to be factored in to effective policy work. Trade-offs all the way down.